Maybe Llving in a hypoxic environment, might help to alleviate depression,for some ?
But the link you provided indicates completely the opposite. Hypoxia seems to have a direct link with depression.
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Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?
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Posted 48 minutes ago #
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Depression, complicated and very personal to the individual but until dealt with, just recycles.
There is no magic answer, no catch all solution to enable people who live in a depressed state of dis-ease, to actually deal with their demons. Therefore, medication will help some, but not all. By the same reasoning, counselling, CBT, mindfulness, exercise et al will also work for some, but not for all.
We each need to find our own way out, a way that is right for the individual. Which requires a certain amount of get up and go to start looking for our own way. I used to feel that my get up and go had got up and **** off, which used to start the spinning downward spiral and i would describe my world and being grey, bleak and desolate.
I termed myself as a cyclical ( no pun intended) depressive, with what I termed as major bouts occurring every seven years or so; my last major bout of deep depression was over 10 years ago. Am I fully recovered? Possibly, yes, it's up to me, like any behavioural addiction, I could now make the familiar and well trodden mental connections and whizz down the rabbit hole again, but I choose not to. I make my own world, I might as well make it good for me.
Coming to terms with and actually accepting my mental state, rather than being angry with myself for having no real right to be pissed off with me and my world, was one of the major turning points in my recovery. There were many others too, it was like a jigsaw that finally came together. The pieces materialised following lots of reading, lots of being actively curious about how I could choose to think differently about my beliefs and more importantly for me, my expectations of myself and my world around me.
A combination of many diverse ingredients has helped me enormously, which I sum up with three words: Mindfulness, acceptance and attitude. They work for me, they may well not for anyone else. I choose their definitions too. In my frame of reference they work. Find your own frame of reference, the Buddhists talk about the Right Effort. If something is too much effort, is it really helping you? Find the ways that feel good, they generally will be.
Be brutally honest with yourself and your dis-ease. There may, more likely, will, be difficult decisions and home truths that you'll need to tackle along your journey, be brave, be true and remember that in spite of the current love for labels and excuses, we can only be truly responsible for our own happiness and dealing with our chattering minds.
Peace out.
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